Necktie-fastener.



'tening shown in Fig. 2.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFTCE.

NECKTIE-FASTENER.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, WILLIAM I'IODGKIN- soN and EUGENE F. CLARKIN, citizens of the United States, and residents of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie- F asteners, of which the following is a specification. i I

Our invention relates to new and useful improvements in neck tie fastening for permanent attachment to a tie and adapted to permit of the convenient application and removalof the tie to a collar button.

It is the object of our invention to provide a neck tie fastening for ordinary ties, which will allow the same to be quickly attached and removed, and which will retain the tie in its correct position when attached to the collar button; to provide such means of engagement for ties as will permit us to dispense with the use of the shield, which is now commonly used on the backs of this class of ties; further to design the fastening so as to permit of its attachment to a tie without sewing, and finally to produce a fastening which can be inexpensively manufactured and in consequence put upon the present cheap grade of ties so as to allow the same to be sold at their present low prices.

With the above objects in view our invention resides and consists in the novel construction and combination of parts shown upon the accompanying sheet of drawings forming a part of this specification, upon which similar characters of reference denote like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures and of which;

Figure 1, shows a rear elevation of a bow design of tie, with our improved fastening attached thereto. Fig. 2, is a similar rear elevation of the tie with our fastening attached, the encircling band of the tie being removed to better expose the fastening. Fig. 3, is a detached perspective view ofthe fas- Fig. 4, is a vertical cross section through the tie and socket shown in Fig. 1, applied to a special form of collar button. Fig. 5,' shows a detached front elevation of the socket member of a modified form of our fastening. Fig. 6,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 11, 1906.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Serial No. 316,417.

shows a side elevation of the construction shown in Fig. 5, the attaching ends of the fastening being indicated by dotted lines in their closed position, and Fig. 7, is a front elevation of the collar button shown in Fig. 4, detached.

Referring in detail to the characters of reference marked upon the drawing 10 indicates an ordinary bow tie, 11 a band such as is commonly used on bow ties, to encircle and hold together the central portions of the transverse members of the fabric. The particular style or design of tie to be used in connection with our fastener is not material, since it can be used to advantage on any of the popular styles of, what are known as made-up ties.

Our fastening in its preferred form consists of but two parts, namely a socket member 12 for attachment to the tie and a special design of button 13 having a fiat sided head and an oval shank 13, which is to be used in the shirt and collar in-the usual way. The

socket member 12 however may be made of two parts if desired, and of two different kinds of metal as for instance brass and steel, while the button is obviously made 'of a high grade of metal finished in any preferred manner.

The socket member 12 is preferably formed of a single piece of sheet metal stamped out and folded up as indicated in Fig. 3. The

end portions 14 of the blank being folded over upon the back 15, and disposed forward parallel with each other to form oppositely located spring jaws 1.6. The extremities 17 of said aws are further deflected outward at an angle to better receive the head of the button. The body portion 18 of the jaws are curved slightly as at 18, to form concaved recesses upon the inside thereof to better conform to the elongated oval sides 19 of the head of the button. The upper jaw is slightly shorter and its recess consequently closer to the tie than that of the lower aw, which fact tends to tilt the socket member of the fastening slightly with reference to the button, thus throwing the tie upward, and

out at the bottom (see Fig. 4), which is the most desirable position for the tie, when ap-c plied. Ears 20 are turned up from the back portion of the socket member and disposed across the ends of the pocket 21 formed intermediate of the jaws thus preventing lateral displacement of the socket with respect to the head of the button when the two are connected. The upper extremity of these cars may be disposed outward slightly to more readily receive the head of the button if desired. Points 22 are formed integral with the back of the socket member and are disposed at a right angle thereto for the attachment of the socket to the tie. Said points in practice being shoved through the several plies of the middle portion of the .tie, and. their ends turned over upon the opposite side in a way to firmly retain the socket attached thereto. The band piece 11 before mentioned, is then laid across said turned over ends, and wrapped around the bow with its ends brought together and sewed as shown in Fig. 1, thus inclosing the body portion of the socket member of the fastening and exposing only the outer portions of the yieldable jaws and ears. The yieldable jaws being straight across and disposed parallel to each other when used in connection with a button, having an elongated head as shown, with corresponding parallel oval sides to be engaged by the jaws of the socket, insures the tie remaining in its proper transverse position and in perfect alinement with the button hole in the collar.

The construction shown in Figs. 5 and 6, comprises a socket member formed of two parts, and consists of a back 23Ewhich in practice is preferably formed of steel having integral attaching strips 24 disposed from the four corners, which can readily be bent around the central portion of the tie, as indicated in Fig. 6, for the attachment of the socket to a tie. This back is further provided with lips 25 at either end intermediate the straps, which lips are bent forward over upon the second part, comprisinga folded jaw member 26 of the socket to hold the same in place. The end ears 27 are also formed integral with and bent up from. the back 23 and are disposed across the ends of the pocket 26 formed intermediate of the jaws. The jaws 16 are formed integral with the brassj aw member 26 which is held against the back by means of the lips 25 of said back. These jaws are similar in design and function to those of the preferred form and likewise operated in the same way.

In the attachment of a tie provided with our improved socket, to a button as shown, it is simply necessary to engage the end of the button intermediate of the ends of the jaws and then press the socket back, thus spreading the jaws to receive the end of the button within the socket whereupon the jaws obviously snap down upon the opposite parallel sides of the oval shank in a way to hold. the devices together in their proper relative positions.

Having thus described our invention what we claim and desire to secure by .lietters latent is:

1. In a neck tie fastener, the combination with a collar button having a [lat sided head and oval shank, of a socket to engage such button, comprising oppositely located yield able jaws having concave recesses upon their insides to engage the opposite sides of the button shank, one of said recesses being situated out farther than the other, and means for securing said socket to a tie.

2. In a neck tie fastener, the combination with a collar button having an elongated llat sided head and oval shank, of a socket to ongage said button, comprising a back, oppositely located yieldable jaws to engage the two oval sides of the button shank, integral ears extended from the back to inclosc the ends of the pocket formed. intermediate the jaws, and m ans for securing the socket to a tie.

3. In a neck tie fastener, the combination with a collar button having an elongated [lat sided head and oval shankpof a socket formed of sheet metal bent up to "form two opposed yieldable jaws having concaved recesses therein one of which is out farther than the other, ears intermediate the ends of the jaws, and means for the attachment of the socket to a tie.

4. In a neck tie fastener, the combimttion with a collar button having an elongated lla t sided head and shank, of a sheet metal socket to engage the button comprising opposed yieldable jaws, ears intermediate the ends of the jaws, and integral extensions on said sheet metal socket, for its attachment to the tie.

5. In a neck tie fastener, the combination with a collar button having an elongated .llat sided head and shank, ot a socket formed of sheet metal con'iprising a back plate having extended points to engage a tie, opposed yieldable jaws to engage the that sides of the button, and means to prevent lateral displacement of the socket with respect to the button.

6. In a neck tie fastener, the combination with a socket formed of sheet metal comprising a back plate having its upper and lower portions turned over upon the back aml disposed outward. to form spring jaws and a socket therebetween, ears turned up from said back plate disposed across,thc sides of the pocket, and extended strips for tl attachment of the socket to a tie.

7. Ina neck tie fastening, the combination with a collar button having an elongated .lla t sided head and shank, of a socket member formed of sheet metal, end portions turned Signed at Waterbury, in the. county of over upon the front of the sheet and disposed New Haven, and State of Connecticut thls 5th 1 o outward opposed to each other to form yieldday of May, A. D., 1906.'

able jaws and an elongated socket ther'ebe- WILLIAM HODGKINSON. 5 tween, a plate to support said jaw member EUGENE F. CLARKIN.

having means to engage the tie, and ears dis- Witnesses:

posed forward to close the end of the pocket MARTHA F. JOY,

formed intermediate of the jaws. ARTHUR HODGKINSON. 

